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...It was an extraordinary luxury to spend time alone with Bosch, Titian, Velázquez or Goya....
...Stiffly determined aristocrats — Velázquez’s moustache-curling “Count-Duke of Olivares”, Goya’s wigged, powdered “Manuel Lapeña” — tower above us, while a laughing “Lucienne Bréval as Carmen” shines in the...
...His apartment is “a micro-V&A” of eclectic religious artefacts and exotic antiquities....
...Mark Bostridge’s book takes us through the year as it unfolds, in details found in a range of diaries, letters, newspapers and memoirs....
...If we surrender to paganism, Marsyas’s fate awaits us all. The majestic finale is a last sight of the St Lawrence painting as we descend the staircase that leads us to the exit....
...The V&A offers 60 superb drawings from British collections, many rarely, or never, seen in public....
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